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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Nothing Years Of Therapy Won't Fix

My five year old niece at the Thanksgiving table, after a telling a slew of typical little kid jokes states: "What did the tornado say to the lamb?" I'M GONNA EAT YOU!"


Upon being asked where that joke came from her face dropped and she made a look of sheer horror and said in a whisper: "It was in my dream last night"

Wissinoming
Overheard by concerned aunt

Monday, November 29, 2010

Alcohol Kills All Pain


Field House
Overheard by betsyvonawesome

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Kahula And Cream

Woman on phone to child: "Mommy don't drink beer no more she drinks chocolate milk!"

Croydon
Overheard by Claire

Friday, November 26, 2010

I Find Assholes Are Rarely Cordial

Girl on bike, wearing helmet, riding the right way down 10th Street, narrowly misses getting hit by a dude, wearing headphones but no helmet, riding real fast on the sidewalk in the wrong direction on Bainbridge.

Girl: "Woah! Hey, you almost killed me - watch where you're going!"
Bike Dude, over his shoulder as he continues on his way: "Fuckin' idiot. Nice helmet!"


10th and Bainbridge

Overheard by Janiebell

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Give Thanks That You Aren't That Cat

Philly cop, referring to a cat with a chicken bone down on the tracks: “That’s a SEPTA cat. Don’t mess with it. It’ll take your face off.”

City Hall Broad St. Line platform
Overheard by Eric

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Small Business Owner

Guy: "You can't be a pimp and a prostitute too! I just doesn't work that way!"

Girl: "I'll do what I gotta do to feed my baby!"


Market st
Overheard by Allie!

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Oh My Stars And Garters!

Girl 1: "I feel like this is a Christian band."


Girl 2: "Oh no. He said 'Fuck' "

The Blockley
Overheard by betsyvonawesome

Monday, November 22, 2010

Are These 'Real' Americans?

North Philly girls discussing why they had been out of contact

.
Slightly crazy girl: "well you know, they locked me up for 30 days but it wasnt all bad. I aint got cable at home anyway plus no screamin' kid runnin around."

Slightly more crazy and tweaking girl fires back: "bitch you lucky, my mom made me get a job".

Cottman & Frankford
Overheard by Locked Up A Broad

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Quiet Car?

Ghetto on cell phone: "Good f***ing morning." "What the f*** do you want?" "Watch your f***ing mouth it is too f***ing early in the f***ing morning and I ain't smoked a f***ing blunt yet."

(He proceeds to drop the f bomb 35 more times in a 3 minute convo... I counted)

PATCO Train
Overheard by F***ing Irritated

Friday, November 19, 2010

Must Be The Rust Belt

In Chestnut Hill, as I was crossing Germantown Ave, two women I front of me, one says to the other emphatically: "Philadelphia is a red state!"

Germantown Ave & Bethlehem Pike

Overheard by Iamspencer

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Thin The Herd

"I was born by the pussy, I will die by the pussy. I don't care if I get aids!"

Outside CCP Main Campus

Overheard by Evil Cactus

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Life's Mysteries

Unseen Philosopher: "Why women be smelling all like hamburgers?"

Broad and Cecil B. Moore

Overheard by Cyril Figgus

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

And We Were Going Spelunking!

A teenage girl to her friends:
"So we asked to go to the bathroom, and we were in there for a while talking. So we had to tell the teacher an excuse for why we were in there. So she goes back to the classroom and says to him 'Um...I know you don't want to here this, but Becca got a tampon stuck in her vagina'

Septa bus

Overheard by A weirded out eavesdropper

Monday, November 15, 2010

Minority Report Please!

guy walking by on his cell phone: "dude, i had a dream last night. i finally murdered that girl, and it was really graphic...."

South Street

Overheard by Chatterbox06

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Men Can Enjoy The Finer Things In Life

Couple walking down the aisle, boyfriend stops at an end cap with blankets to feel the fabric.


Boyfriend: "OOo I like this Jaun."
Girlfriend: (inspects) "Boy,I don't like none of that"

South Philly Walmart on Delaware Ave
Overheard by mf boozer

Friday, November 12, 2010

Abstinence Only Education Is Failing Us

White Girl 1: "My friend's pregnant. She hopes it's black baby or a dog. They're both cute."
White Girl 2: "Yea, black babies are cuter."

City Hall

Overheard by betsyvonawesome

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Neither, That's What's So Strange

Girl: "She sews a lot. Does she have a lot of cats or children?"

at work

Overheard by Mr. Kitty

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Modern Relationships Are Weird

Guy: "so the girl im seeing has an official name now."

Guy 2: "oh yeah?"

Guy: "yeah, roommate. She was always over anyway and this way I still don't have to call her girlfriend. I can just say 'no i don't have a girlfriend but im banging my roommate.'"

the cube farm

Overheard by Scottie Onetime

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Human Beings Can Rationalize Anything

Big fat girl: "so I have to go to the doctors this afternoon for bloodwork?"

Other big fatty:" for what diabetes?"

Big fat girl: "yeah, as im sitting here googling cupcakes. I figure its not offical yet so its still fair game".

the cube farm

Overheard by Scottie Onetime

Monday, November 8, 2010

But I Get Sleepy!

Teen boy on cell phone: What?! Plenty of stuff happens after 9 o'clock! (pause) See, that's why your gay ass is never gonna be shit in life.

Baltimore Ave and Church Ln in Lansdowne

Overheard by how2know

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Message Confusion

Talking about drug and ways to say no

Boy one: "Just tell them you'd rather not get pregnant."

Science Leadership
Overheard by Allie!

Friday, November 5, 2010

Service Work Is Unforgiving

Cart guy: "Can I help you?"
Old Lady: "Give me a mild hot sausage"
Cary guy: "Do you want mild or hot?"
Old Lady: "Yes"


Street Foodcart, NE corner 11th & Sansom, across from Jeff
Overheard by jr

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Wah? Really!?

Guy: "Man, I wish there were bonfires back home."

Girl: "Well, we could go to AA."

Guy: "But we aren't alcoholics!"

Girl: "So? They have bonfires at their meetings sometimes."

Grocery Store in Bensalem
Overheard by WD 40

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Yeah, Probably The Second One

Girl on the El fist pumping in a tutu: "I'm not sure if the guys are checking me out or if their trying to figure out what mental ward to call."

The El
Overheard by Allie!

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

High Standards?

Woman on the phone: "He has to have all A's, believe in god, and be smoking hot to get into Roman."


Septa route 27
Overheard by Allie!

Monday, November 1, 2010

That Is True Devotion

"Yeah I'm gonna get his ashes put into a keychain"


shopping center, Bensalem
Overheard by Whose ashes? A pet/person? creepy either way